Wycombe High School

Wycombe High School

Infobox UK school
name = Wycombe High School



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latitude = 51.6196
longitude = -0.7626
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established = 1901
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type = Foundation Grammar school
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head_label = Headteacher
head = Ms Jane Wainwright
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specialist = Mathematics & Computing
street = Marlow Road
city = High Wycombe
county = Buckinghamshire
postcode = HP11 1TB
country = England flagicon|England
LEA = Buckinghamshire
ofsted = 110513
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enrollment = 1,340
gender = Girls
lower_age = 11
upper_age = 18
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website = http://www.whs.bucks.sch.uk/
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Wycombe High School is a girls' grammar school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. It is a Foundation School, taking girls from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 1,340 pupils. [cite web | title=Schools Directory | publisher=Buckinghamshire County Council | url=http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/schools/schoolDetails.aspx?DFEE=4042 | accessdate=2006-08-02]

In September 2005, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) awarded the school specialist school status in Mathematics & Computing. [cite web | title=Specialist Schools Home | publisher=DfES | date=July 2006 | url=http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/specialistschools/ | accessdate=2006-08-02]

History

The school was the first state grammar school for girls in Buckinghamshire when it opened in 1901 with eighteen students. [cite web | title = Project: The Wycombe High School Centre for the History of Girl's State Education | work = Grants Database | publisher = Heritage Lottery Fund | url = http://www.hlf.org.uk/English/GrantsDatabase/grantsproject?applicationID=23629
accessdate =2008-06-16
] It won "Top of the Form" in 1959. [cite web | last = House | first = Marilyn | title = Nightmares about gym | work = That'll Teach 'Em : What it was like | publisher = Channel 4 | url = http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/teachem/whatlike_4_t.html | accessdate =2008-06-16 ]

Notable alumnae

*Julia Bone, tennis player [cite web|last = Slade|first = Joe|title = Bone has dream Wimbledon date|work = Bucks Free Press|publisher = Newsquest Media Group|date = 2005-06-25|url = http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/sport/localsport/display.var.609042.0.bone_has_dream_wimbledon_date.php| accessdate =2008-06-16 ]
*Lucinda Dryzek, actress
*Penny Jamieson, Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealandcite book |title='JAMIESON, Rt Rev. Penelope Ann Bansall' Who's Who 2008 |accessdate=2007-12-12 | publisher=A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press | url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U14316 ]
*Alexandra Reid, violinistcite web | title = Lunchtime Music | publisher = Wooburn Festival | date = 2007-09-17 | url = http://www.wooburn.com/Web/lunchtimeM1.htm | accessdate =2008-06-16 ]
*Charlotte Reid, violinist

References

External links

* [http://www.whs.bucks.sch.uk/ School Website]
* [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/index.cfm?fuseaction=summary&id=110513 Ofsted Reports]
* [http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/cgi-bin/performancetables/school_06.pl?Mode=Z&No=8254503&Type=LA&Num=825&Phase=1&Year=06&Base=b Department for Children, Schools and Families GCSE Performance Tables]


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